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Report reporter tremain lee. Miss michigan is here with me. Well hear from those in the bar tonight about what they think of the president. Our Special Coverage continues tomorrow night when we bring your our town hall with flint native Michael Moore. You do not want to miss that. But we begin tonight with a stark illustration of just whats at stake with the potentially catastrophic hurricane now bearing down on the east coast. Prompting mandatory Evacuation Orders from more than a million people. The president of the United States today sat in the oval office and bragged about his performance...

Intentional, there is an disinvestment in black communities, and we see that in mississippi. oftentimes, with federal funding, it goes through the state's first. if you have, for example, a state government who is not, necessarily, thinking about the residents of a majority black city, and they are able to ensure that those individuals are not able to get funding. we can see that with decades, and decades, now, we are in a place where jackson mississippi is going to cost billions of dollars, to be able to fix their water infrastructure system. we see that in flint, we see that another majority...

Hearing from officials fool ya. we've been dealing with boiled water notices long before this flood ever showed up and long before america ever saw what was happening to us here in jackson, mississippi. the capital of the state. they are furious that they are not getting any kind of idea as to exactly a timeline as to when they're going to be able to trust the water coming out of their taps and at this point, because they have been going through this for so many years, i think that trust has been eroded and that trust might be eroded indefinitely just like when they're going to get clean water...

Toward infrastructure issues around there. how do you feel about what's happening and how do you fix something like this when it feels like it's racially targeted? >> well, it is not only feels like it's racially targeted. if you look at the history of those communities and cities that have suffered this kind of infrastructure failure, they've always been majority black or people of color. flint, michigan being one everyone can recall, but it's more than that. you must remember that the mayor has done a good job and his father before him who was mayor have been raising these issues before. and...

Tolerated in jackson, in flint or anywhere else. where we're now having to find ways to try and get bottled water there to help them and the response has been reverend dr. jamaal bryant called me this morning, his church, and he's calling others and his church sending four trucks down, we're sending two from the action network. but where's the response from the government, federal and state? clearly the infrastructure bill has sent money into the state. the priority ought to be where there was disproportionate neglect and jackson was disproportionately neglected, it ought to be disproportionat...